It is safe to say that today has not been our most eventful day. To be honest it could be summarised in two words, "Abigail's ill"! From four in the morning she has been back and forth not feeling well with stomach cramps and other symptoms. After a conversation with her mum, the diagnostic seems to be a case of altitude sickness. It is even more of a shame as she seemed to be loving La Paz and we have got a long journey on the night bus to Uyuni too. She has g...

It is a little warmer in the new hostel and we were almost at risk of a lie in. An 9 o'clock start with our complimentary breakfast with our room was eaten before we headed to try and arrange a couple of tours. Going in search of the tourist office for a majority of the morning all went in vain. This was because it was Bolivia's national holiday and everywhere is shut. We elected have some lunch and then before speaking a tour company or two. After a slight mon...

Cold would be an understatement for last night. We had to share a single bed as no doubles in the hotel but we pretty much froze. Once we had both warmed up with a hot shower each we quickly had breakfast and set off into the markets. The alpaca clothes were sold on every stool and not wanting to get cold again we have both bought a jumper. A slight pain in the backside was that our hostel had no room but there was one just as good a two minute walk which had d...

Waking up to more money issues wasn't part of the plan and we thought that was over when we left Venezuela, but nothing a quick trip to the cashpoint couldn't solve. The landlady from last night woke up in just as a foul mood as she went to bed and after about four different conversations we finally were able to book a taxi to take us to the airport. Thankfully the taxi driver spoke to us and after realising we didn't have a ticket he took us to a different buil...

Today started by waking up in a hammock in the middle of the Amazon rainforest listening a black monkey (howling monkey) bellowing as loud as he could to mark his territory. We can think of worse places to wake up. After all of us finally rolling out of our hammocks we re-lit the fire and cooked coffee which had a burning stick put out in it before hand for some reason but didn't make it taste bad surprisingly. Accompanied by more pineapple and bread we packed u...